trans mountain pipeline: not worth the risk · presentation to ministerial panel august 16, 2016...

NOT WORTH THE RISK

City of Vancouver

Presentation to Ministerial

Panel

August 16, 2016

TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE:

We have taken an evidence-based approach to assessing TMEP

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M/V Marathassa Fuel Spill

> 2,800 L released

CLIMATE LEADERSHIP 4

The risk of an oil spill from TMEP-related tankers could

be devastating

The NEB process and Kinder Morgan’s

deeply flawed methodologies

have produced a biased and unreliable report.

One tanker will transit Vancouver waters

at every daytime high-tide.

RISK = LIKELIHOOD x CONSEQUENCES

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Worst-case scenario:

16 million litres of oil in local waters

(1/5 of volume in a project-related tanker)

Map by Living Oceans Society

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TMP & NEB failed to properly assess the risk of oil

spills.

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Stearman Beach, West Vancouver Sargeant Bay, Sunshine Coast

Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver

What’s at risk?

Public health

Metro Vancouver evidence showed up

to 1 million people may be

potentially exposed to unsafe

levels of benzene.

100,000+ sea and shorebirds could die

Harbour seals and salmon could be decimated

The endangered southern resident killer whale

population would be at risk of extinction

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What’s at Risk?

Ocean-dependent economy

Potential losses =

$201 - 687 million in GDP

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What’s at Risk?

Our Economy

How could a pipeline possibly

fit with Canada’s future low

carbon economy and Vancouver’s

Renewable City?

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Minister Catherine McKenna at COP21 in Paris, December 2015

TMEP is incompatible with

Canada’s and the international

community’s climate

commitments.

TMEP-related downstream GHG emissions

(not considered by the NEB and CEAA GHG

Methodology) are estimated to be 10x higher

than upstream emissions.

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There is no real economic need for the pipeline.

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The NEB process was

flawed and led to an

unlawful and invalid

NEB recommendation.

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• No oral cross examination

• No way to adequately test

TMP’s evidence

• An inadequate information-

request process

• Lack of proper public

consultation and engagement

There’s no social license for TMEP

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This is a question

of democracy.

With so much

at stake, and

no benefit to a

future low-carbon

Canada, this

pipeline is

NOT WORTH THE RISK.

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